Fishery adapts years after N.L. cod closure
"It's science and it's sustainability and they go hand in hand," he said. Science, though, has had problems of its own. With the decline in the commercial value of traditional fisheries, successive federal governments...
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CBC News
Restaurants enlisted in anti-Pebble Mine campaign
The company says Alaska has an excellent record of fisheries and mining coexisting. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,...
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KTUU
A Brief History of Fisheries
The crazy economics of open access fisheries is one of the main reasons some countries (including the U.S.) subsidize fisheries – some analysts think that globally, subsidies...
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Environmental Defense Fund
Frankenfoods
At the same time our fisheries are collapsing. Tuna and other big fish are about to go extinct (see this NY Times article). We’re overgrazing which...
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Balloon Juice
Unpredictable fishery economics guide ocean’s populations
Since then, fisheries have had to reach to increasing depths for less-profitable fish. Because the price indexes of different fish are unpredictable...
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Ars Technica
Candidates weigh in on seafood
We have one of the best-managed fisheries on the planet, and we need to make sure we keep basing decisions on science and not on politics," Samuels said. The high...
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Local voices: frustration growing over Senate plan on Tongass logging
An arbitrary bill? "They have taken it on themselves to pick old growth reserves and fisheries habitat to save or give away, not based on scientific reasons but political ones," Judy Magnuson, community secretary for Port...
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Mongabay.com
Sturgeon: On the edge of extinction
Russia's wild capitalism and murky reforms of the 1990s dealt a severe blow to fisheries such as the one in Zelenga, a tiny, once-flourishing town...
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The Independent
US teen sailor rescued from Indian Ocean
"A transfer to the French fisheries patrol vessel Osiris will take place off the islands in about two days, depending on the weather, for a return to Reunion...
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The Age
Global: USA/Nigeria: By way of comparison
Oil in water damages fisheries and contaminates water that people use for drinking and other domestic purposes. There are a number of reasons why...
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Pambazuka